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INEXPENSIVE    HOMES 
"  OF  INDIVIDUALITY 

BEING    A     COLLECTION    OF     PHOTOGRAPHS    AND 

FLOOR    PLANS    ILLUSTRATING    CERTAIN    OF 

AMERICA'S  BEST  COUNTRY  AND  SUBURBAN  HOMES 

OF   MODERATE  SIZE 


WITH    AN    INTRODUCTION    BY 

FRANK  MILES  DAY 

PAST    PRESIDENT 
AMERICAN    INSTITUTE    OF   ARCHITECTS 


NEW  YORK 

McBRIDE,  WINSTON  &  CO. 

1911 


A  List  of  the  Contributing  Architects 

William  A.  Bates,  25  W.  42nd  St.,  New  York,  N.  V. 

Arthur  B.  Benton,  II4  No.  Spring  St.,  Los  Angeles,  Cal. 

Lawrence  Buck,  909  Stcinway  Hall,  Chicago,  111. 

Duhring,  Okie  &  Ziegler,  705  Bailey  Building,  Philadelpliia,  Pa. 

Aymar  Embury,  IL,  1133  Broadway,  New  York,  N.  Y. 

J.  Sumner  Fowler,  19  Milk  Street,  Boston,  Mass. 

Edmund  B.  Gilchrist,  St.  Martin's.  Pa. 

J.  Acker  Hays,  2010  Broadway,  New  York,  N.  Y. 

Oswald  C.  Hering,  1  W.  34th  St.,  New  York,  N.  Y. 

Hollingsworth  Sc  Bragdon,  Cranford,  N.  J. 

W.  E.  Jackson,  929  Chestnut  St.,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 

Charles  Barton  Keen.  IOO8  Bailey  Building,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 

Mann  &  MacNcilie,  12  E.  45th  St  ,  New  York.  N.  Y. 

Mcllvain  &  Roberts,  1517  Land  Title  Annex  Building,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 

Mellor  &  Meigs,  821  Lafayette  Building,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 

Christopher  Myers,  460  Bloomfield  Avenue,  Mfintdair,  N.  J. 

Ernest  Newton,  London.  England 

Joseph  W.  Northrop,  Court  Exchange,   Bridgeport,  Conn. 

Squires  &  Wynkoop,  27  E.  22nd  St  ,  New  York,  N.  Y. 

F.  M.  Summerville,  1  Madison  Avenue,  New  York,  N.  Y. 

Tallmadge  &  Watson,  188  E.  Madison  St.,  Chicago,  111. 


Copyright,    1911,  by 
McBridc,  Winston  iV  Company 


Printed   July,    1911 
By    L.  H.    Irnkins,  Richmond,  Va. 


Choosing  a    Style   for  the    House 


ONE  is  sometimes  asked  whether  there  are  not  some  fundamental 
principles  which  should  control  the  choice  of  style  for  any 
given  building,  and  especially  of  a  dwelling  house,  in  which  fashion 
rather  than  reason  so  often  dominates. 

Without  attempting  to  beg  the  question,  the  first  thing  that  occurs 
to  me  is  that  a  deliberate  choice  of  style  is  by  no  means  essential,  and 
is,  indeed,  often  a  grave  hindrance  to  a  right,  reasonable,  and  beauti- 
ful solution  of  the  problem  of  building.  And  by  style,  I  here  mean 
what  is  ordinarily  meant  by  that  word;  that  is  to  say,  a  well  defined 
mode  of  building  prevalent  in  some  certain  place  and  at  some  certain 
time.  Normally,  style  of  this  sort  originates  from  the  needs  of  a 
people,  from  the  materials  at  hand  and  from  a  desire  to  build  with 
beauty;  but  in  the  course  of  its  evolution  it  is  always  modified  and 
held  in  control  by  the  builder's  knowledge  of  what  has  gone  before 
or  what  is  going  on  at  his  own  time.  Until  the  revival  of  learning, 
the  age  of  the  conscious,  passionate  striving  to  resurrect  the  glory  of 
the  classic  ages,  there  were  but  few,  if  any,  deliberate  attempts  to 
hark  back  to  an  earlier  manner  of  building.  The  ancients  had  done 
that  sort  of  thing  in  sculpture  when  they  had  imitated  the  early  work 
of  their  forbears  in  a  way  which,  strive  as  it  might,  could  not  seize 
the  real  archaic  spirit,  the  way  we  now  call  archaistic.  But  in  archi- 
tecture it  is  hard  to  put  one's  finger  on  that  sort  of  thing  earlier  than 
the  time  of  the  Renaissance,      Then,  gradually,  the  old  order  gave 

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way  to  the  new.  To  be  sure,  even  after  the  change,  the  needs  of  the 
people  had  to  be  met,  and  their  needs  were  very  different  from  those 
of  the  ancient  Romans,  but,  such  as  they  were,  they  were  met  in  the 
way  in  which  the  men  of  the  Renaissance  thought  the  men  of  the 
Augustan  era  would  have  met  them. 

And  thus  for  the  first  time  arose  the  question  of  a  deliberate  choice 
of  style,  a  resuscitation  of  a  way  of  building  in  use  in  other  ages  and 


A  iiiodern    English  country   home  at    Wokinpham,    Berkshire,   tliat    indicates  tlie 
development  of  (Jeorfjian  work  in   recent  years 

h'.rm'st  XCiilini,   anhitirt 


under  other  conditions.  And  this  is  what  we  have  been  trying  to  do 
ever  since,  only  we  out-Herod  Herod.  The  men  of  the  Renaissance 
were  in  unison  as  to  the  style  they  wanted  to  imitate.  We  do  not 
know  our  own  minds;  we  do  not  know  what  age,  what  country  to  set 
up  as  our  standard,  and  the  voices  that  would  guide  us  are  crying  in 
this  wilderness  of  indecision.  But  there  is  one  thing  well  known, 
completely  agreed  upon  by  all  who  have  given  serious  thought  to  it: — 
that  it  is  not  by  the  copying  of  the  outward  forms  of  any  architectural 


Inexpensive  Homes   of  Individuality  5 

style  that  we  can  hope  to  make  our  work  vital  and  worthy.  If  from  a 
plan  suited  to  the  needs  of  a  given  building,  if  from  a  reasonable  and 
appropriate  choice  and  handling  of  materials,  there  should  grow 
beauty,  it  is  all  that  we  can  ask  and  all  that  we  need  to  ask.  Simple 
as  it  sounds,  the  doing  of  the  thing  is  difficult  beyond  conception.  Few 
can  do  it  well  or  even  passably.  Granted  that  this  is  the  right  way. 
the  only  way  by  which  we  can  hope  to  make  buildings  truthful  and 


A  country  home  at  Pleasantville,  N.  Y.     There  is  an  interesting  and  unusual 
use  of  stonework  in  the  circular  columns  supporting  the  wide  overhang 

U^il/iain  A.  Bates,  archilect 

beautiful  and  eloquent  of  their  time  and  place,  it  is  easy  to  see  how  a 
choice  of  style  from  a  priori  considerations  is  a  most  grave  hindrance 
to  the  following  of  it. 

And  having  said  all  this,  I  am  prepared  to  grant,  paradoxical  as  it 
may  seem,  that  style  in  architecture  is  the  one  quality  that  above  all 
others  secures  for  a  building  the  esteem  of  generations  of  men.  But 
style  In  this  sense  is  not  an  affair  of  archaeology  but  an  abstract  quality, 
a  subtle  excellence  very  hard  to  define.      Perhaps  it  may  be  made 


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clear  by  comparison  with  that  same  quality  of  style  as  we  think  of  it 
in  the  sister  art  of  literature.  If  the  work  of  a  writer  reaches  real 
distinction,  it  may  well  be  assumed  that  it  has  the  quality  we  call 
style,  and  we  do  not  demand  that  this  style  be  that  of  a  definite  school. 
We  do    not  ask  him   to  write  like  an  Elizabethan  dramatist,   or   a 


A  house  at  Woodmere,  L.  I.,  that  is  frankly  an  adaptation  of  the  American 
farmhouse  to  modern  needs 


Charles  Barton  Keen,  architect 


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Georgi.i!l-Sssayist,  or  a  pre-Raphaelite  poet.  If  he  have  something 
worth  saying,  and  if  he  surround  the  saying  of  it  with  that  indefinable 
thing  called  literary  style,  it  is  enough.  Now  this  precisely  is  the 
sort  of  style  that  we  should  demand  of  the  architect.  That  he  know 
the  grammar  of  his  art,  that  he  plan  simply  and  directly,  that  he  build 
strongly,  Is  not  enough.  Has  his  work  expression?  Has  it  the  high 
quality  of  style?  Has  it,  in  other  words,  an  excellence  of  design  that 
raises  it  to  the  plane  of  serious  consideration?  This,  after  all,  is  the 
thing  that  is  to  distinguish  his  work  from  that  of  his  fellows. 

And  how  have  such  of  our  architects  as  have  striven  for  it  suc- 
ceeded in  making  houses  interesting  and  beautiful  without  resorting 
to  the  easy  trick  of  using  a  definite  historic  style?  Fortunately  there 
are  many  examples  in  which,  by  the  use  of  local  materials,  well  com- 
posed masses  and  simple  details,  entirely  satisfactory,  c\cn  altogether 


Inexpensive  Homes  of  Individuality  7 

admirable  results  have  been  reached.  It  is  no  longer  necessary  to 
select  specimens.  Our  domestic  architecture  to  the  discriminating 
eye  furnishes  them  in  abundance.  Here  we  find  one  in  which  the 
local  stone,  bearing  ruddy  stains  from  the  iron  in  it,  is  the  chief 
element;  there  a  cool  grey  micaschist,  handled  in  traditional  ways, 
but  with  freshness  and  a  personal  note;  and  again  others  in  which 
the  simplicity  and  directness  of  the  design  and  qualities  of  freedom, 
charm  and  expression  make  them  worthy  of  all  consideration.  This 
is  the  style,  conditioned  on  local  material,  vocal  of  our  own  time 
and  place;  reasonable,  appropriate  but  nameless,  that  should  come 
naturally  to  us. 

Unfortunately,  we  use  the  same  word  to  indicate  the  high  degree 
of  excellence  in  architectural  design  of  which  I  have  been  speaking, 
and  also  to  indicate  a  manner  of  building  in  vogue  in  a  certain  country 
at  a  certain  time-  But  let  us  avoid  confusion  by  recognizing  the  fact 
that  while  style  in  Its  higher  sense  may  be  present  in  a  work  which  it 
is  quite  impossible  to  tag  with  an  archaeological  label,  it  may  equally 
be  present  in  a  work  of  the  most  definite  archaeological  sort.  On  the 
other  hand  we  must  bear  in  mind  that  a  work  filled  with  archaeological 
accuracy  may  be  quite  devoid  of  style  in  the  truer,  higher  sense. 

But  this  high  quality  of  style  is,  after  all,  not  the  sort  in  which  our 
questioner  is  interested.  He  is  concerned  with  something  far  less 
subtle.  Is  his  home  to  recall  a  Tudor  manor,  a  Tuscan  villa,  a  chateau 
by  the  Loire,  or  a  Virginia  homestead?  The  world  is  all  before  him' 
where  to  choose.  Unfortunately  he  demands  guidance  as  to  his  choice 
and  insists  that  this  guidance  shall  be  based  on  fundamental  principles 
and  not  on  mere  fashion  or  personal  inclination.  Now  while  I  am 
convinced  that  this  question  is  not  a  profitable  one,  and  that  it  gives 
rise  to  negative  results,  I  am  willing  to  make  some  inquiry  for  possible 
answers.  Let  us  ask  then  what  things  we  might  suppose  would  influ- 
ence the  style  of  a  house.     Here  certainly  are  some  of  them: 

a.  The  kind  of  country  in  which  the  house  is  to  be  built,  flat  or 

rolling,  mountainous,  wooded  or  open. 

b.  Neighboring  buildings,  especially  if  of  a  definite  type. 

c.  Local  materials  and  traditional  ways  of  building. 


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d.  The  owner's  individuality  and  mode  of  life. 

e.  The  architect's  personality,  training  and  predilections. 

The  Site  of  the  House 

The  site  unquestionably  should  have  a  very  great  influence  upon 
the  plan  of  the  house,  but  it  seems  to  have  far  less  influence  on  the 
choice  of  style  than  one  would  imagine.  Let  us  for  a  moment  con- 
ceive the  site  as  a  broad  plain  near  a  river.  Some  old  Georgian 
manor,  Groombridge  Place,  let  us  say,  seems  perfectly  suited  to 
such  a  site.  On  the  other  hand,  can  we  name  any  style  that  our  ques- 
tioner might  have  in  mind  that  does  not  furnish  admirable  solutions 
of  this  very  problem?  Even  so  animated  a  style  as  that  of  the  early 
Renaissance  in  France  gives  us  Josselyn  by  its  rolling  river,  or  Che- 
nonceaux,  spanning  the  quiet  waters  of  the  Cher.  Perhaps  we 
might  generalize  by  saying  that  long  level  lines  harmonize  best  with 
such  quiet  stretches  of  landscape  and  that,  therefore,  we  should 
choose  some  style  in  which  they  predominate,  were  it  not  that  we  are 
dumfounded  by  the  thought  of  Azay,  with  its  strong  verticals  and 
its  agitated  roof  lines,  looking  supremely  beautiful  in  broad  meadows 
with  the  folds  of  the  Indre  wrapped  about  its  base. 

If  our  house  is  to  be  set  upon  some  steep  hillside,  some  cliffy  place, 
surely  we  may  find  guidance  in  such  a  spot.  Obviously,  your  quiet 
Georgian  thing  is  out  of  keeping  here.  Strong  upright  lines,  well 
marked  parts,  a  vivacious  sky-line  suggest  themseh'es.  St.  Pagan's  near 
Llandaff  is  quite  as  it  should  be.  Quite  naturally  one's  mind  runs  off 
to  Scotland  with  its  inimitable  hillside  gardens  such  as  Barncluith, 
only  to  remember  that  the  greatest  charm  of  these  places  is  the  long 
level  lines  of  their  terraces,  rising  one  above  another,  and  that 
Earlshall,  a  house  that  corresponds  well  with  our  imagined  character, 
is  really  set  down  in  a  perfectly  level  place. 

Thus,  in  the  first  effort  to  find  an  answer,  we  reach  a  result  quite 
useless,  to  our  questioner.  Let  him  get  but  a  clever  enough  worker  in 
archaeological  legerdemain  and  his  house  shall  look  well  (so  it  might 
seem)  in  any  style  he  is  pleased  to  name,  and  on  any  site  that  he  is 
pleased  to  buy.  Yet  we  know  very  well  that  it  will  not,  for  we  have 
seen  the  experiment  tried  too  often. 


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Neighboring  Buildings 

That  we  owe  a  duty  to  our  neighbors  in  the  choice  of  style  is  a 
fact  too  often  ignored.  If  buildings  exist  which,  when  our  own  is 
finished,  will  group  with  it,  we  must  not  ignore  them,  for  in  such  an 
instance  our  building  is  but  a  part  of  the  whole  composition  and, 
unless  we  are  utterly  selfish,  we  must  seek  the  best  result  for  the  whole 
rather  than  for  a  part.  In  Europe  this  thought  obtains  more  accept- 
ance than  among  us,  for  in  many  cities  municipal  regulations  are  so 
framed  and  enforced  as  to  secure  a  certain  uniformity  of  design, 


An  example  of  the  old  English  work  where  the  walls  are  partly  of  brick  and 
partly  of  half-timber  work.  Much  of  the  charm  in  these  English  cottages  is 
due  to  the  mellowing  influence  of  time 


monotonous  perhaps,  but  decent,  orderly  and  quiet.  Here,  and  espe- 
cially in  our  suburban  communities,  so  little  harmony  is  seen  that  it  is 
clearly  a  case  of  each  one  for  himself  and  the  Devil  talce  the  hinder- 
most. 

Local  Traditions  and  Materials 

Had  we  definite  local  traditions  in  the  art  of  building,  we  might 
make  some  steady  advance,  building  in  the  way  of  our  fathers  but 


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An  cxcfllfiit  fx;imple  at  Hcwk-tt,  L.  I.,  of  the  modern  revival  of  Colonial  arciiiteotiire. 
The  sun-room  at  the  near  end  shows  how  the  house  holds  to  the  spirit  nither  than  the 
letter  of  the  old  work 

/.  Acker  Hays,  architect 

better  and  more  beautifully.  In  the  States  of  the  Atlantic  seaboard 
there  were  once  such  traditions,  but  we  have  broken  with  them  and 
the  return  to  them  must  be  made  with  conscious  effort,  an  effort  that 
results  in  our  Colonial  revival.  But  for  the  most  part,  throughout  our 
land  there  is  no  local  way  of  building  that  rises  above  the  common- 
place. This  is  partly  due  to  the  fact  that  we  are  no  longer  compelled 
to  use  the  materials  that  the  neighborhood  of  the  building  offers. 
Time  was,  and  that  not  a  hundred  years  ago,  when,  lacking  water 
transportation,  such  materials  had  to  be  used.  And  so  strongly  marked 
is  the  influence  of  that  use  of  local  materials  that,  to  take  an  example 
from  Great  Britain,  one  familiar  with  its  cottages  might,  if  dropped 
down  at  random  anywhere  in  the  Island,  make  from  them  alone  a 
shrewd  guess  as  to  his  whereabouts.  Thus,  if  he  saw  a  certain  kind 
of  cottage  he  would  know  that  he  was  on  that  land  of  limestone  that 
extends  from  Somerset  to  the  dales  of  Yorkshire.  If  the  houses  were 
of  a  soft,  warm  sandstone,  he  might  know  that  he  had  fallen  in 
Cheshire  or  Shropshire,  or  Hereford.  Even  there,  he  might  see  half- 
timbered  cottages  of  great  beauty,  but  by  the  way  in  which  the  timber 


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is  used,  he  would  be  very  sure  that  he  was  not  in  Kent  or  Sussex, 
where  half-timber  work  equally  abounds.  And  now  let  us  take  as  an 
example  of  the  influence  of  material  upon  construction,  and  therefore 
upon  style,  some  simple  Kentish  cottages  of  half-timber  work. 

Upon  a  brick  or  stone  base  a  heavy  sill  piece  was  laid,  and  upon 
this  upright  story  posts,  eight  or  nine  inches  square,  were  fixed.  Those 
at  the  angles  were  larger  and  formed  of  the  butt  of  a  tree  placed  root 
upwards,  with  the  top  part  curving  diagonally  outwards  to  carry  the 
angle  post  of  the  upper  story.  On  these  uprights  rested  another 
larger  timber,  a  sort  of  sill  piece  for  the  second  story.  On  this  in 
turn  rested  the  beams  of  the  second  floor,  their  ends  projecting  some 
eighteen  inches  and  carrying  the  overhanging  second  story  wall,  which 
was  constructed  like  that  of  the  first.  The  divisions  between  the  up- 
rights were  filled  with  wattles  or  laths  and  chopped  straw  and  clay 
or  sometimes  even  with  bricks,  and  the  surface  plastered  flush  with 
the  face  of  the  timbers. 


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The  English  half-timber  house  as  usually  built  in  this  country  is  merely  a  plaster  house 
covered  with  wooden  strips  in  a  pattern.  Here,  however,  the  timbers  are  a  structural 
part  of  the  wall 

Osica/d  C.   Hcri)i{i,   architect 


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Such  a  method  of  construction,  direct  and  truthful  and  beautiful  as 
it  is,  has  defects  in  the  shrinkage  of  its  timbers  and  consequent  open- 
ness to  the  elements,  so  grave  that  houses  thus  built  have,  in  many 
cases,  been  protected  at  a  later  date  by  tile  hanging  or  sometimes  by 
exterior  plastering  or  by  weather-boarding.     So  that  it  often  happens 


A  house  at  Ivy  Court,  Orange,  N.  J.,  built  in  a  tliorouj^lily  modern  way,  of  fire- 
proof materials,  but  showing  the  influence  of  Italian  precedent 

Mann  &  MacNi'ii/c,  architects 


if  we  hunt  beneath  such  protection,  we  find  the  original  half-timber 
cottage  intact.  Such  a  method  of  construction  is  obviously  impossible 
for  us  to-day.  For  were  we  willing  to  pay  the  cost  incident  to  shaping 
the  timbers  by  hand,  we  would  not  tolerate  a  leaky  wall.  Yet,  more's 
the  pity,  we  are  forever  making  the  attempt  to  have  the  semblance 
without  the  reality.  We  build  an  honest  brick  wall,  nail  strips  of 
wood  against  it  and  plaster  the  space  between  them.  What  a  pre- 
posterous imitation  of  a  once  reasonable  construction. 


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Thus,  I  say,  where  a  traditional  style  of  building  existed,  it  was 
modified,  its  evolution  was  assisted  by  the  limitations  imposed  by  the 
use  of  local  materials.  But  how  is  it  with  us  who  lack  a  local  tradition 
and  who  are  no  longer  bound  to  the  use  of  materials  at  hand?  Mod- 
ern facilities  of  transportation  have  actually  made  it,  in  many  cases, 
difficult  and  expensive  to  employ  the  material  at  hand,  so  that  the 
place  where  the  building  is  to  be  erected  has  but  little  influence  on 
the  choice  of  materials  and  consequent  development  of  style.  To-day 
it  is  cheaper  to  build  a  house  in  Maine  of  wood  from  Oregon  than  of 
granite  quarried  within  a  mile,  or  to  finish  the  rooms  with  cypress 
from  the  Gulf  of  Mexico  than  with  white  pine  from  the  Pine  Tree 
State.  Such  are  the  anomalies  of  the  exhaustion  of  natural  resources, 
of  the  use  of  machinery,  of  high-priced  labor  and  of  cheap  transporta- 
tion. 

Predilections  of  the  Architect 

The  owner's  personality  and  his  mode  of  life  should,  of  course, 
exercise  an  influence  on  the  style  of  his  house.  If  he  be  a  man  of 
quiet  tastes,  fond  of  home  life,  not  given  to  lavish  entertainments, 
those  qualities  should  be  expressed  by  a  restrained,  a  modest  domestic 
feeling  in  the  treatment  of  the  house,  that  it  is  almost  impossible  to 
express  in  certain  well-marked  historic  styles.  The  minor  English 
buildings,  the  farmhouses  of  Normandy,  even  our  own  Colonial 
houses,  ofi^er  starting  points  for  such  a  case.  But,  granted  that  the 
man  be  a  millionaire,  with  an  established  position  in  society,  or  even 
with  aspirations  for  It,  his  house  must  be  a  far  different  affair,  suitably 
planned  for  entertaining  many  people,  and  expressed  in  some  formal, 
well  digested  style  such  as  that  of  Louis  XVI.  Indeed  the  selection 
of  a  style  suitable  for  a  million-dollar  "cottage"  at  Newport  Is  far 
less  difficult  than  the  finding  of  the  right  expression  for  a  suburban 
home  of  moderate  size.  The  owner's  training,  his  Inclinations,  too, 
must  not  be  forgotten.  A  man  with  a  well-marked  bias  In  favor  of  all 
French  things,  would  naturally  choose  one  of  the  French  styles  for 
his  house.  One  full  of  enthusiasm  for  all  things  Italian  might  well 
be  pardoned  for  giving  his  house  a  distinctly  Italian  form. 

But  these  are  exceptions.  Not  one  in  a  thousand  of  us  has  any 
intellectual  bias  so  strongly  marked  as  to  justify  its  expression  In  the 


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style  of  his  house.  It  is  obvious  that  the  architect's  training  and 
predilections  for  certain  styles  will,  in  the  main,  exercise  a  far  greater 
influence  on  the  house  than  will  those  of  the  owner.  The  men  who 
achieve  most  by  working  in  definite  styles  are  those  who  entertain 


Bastil   on   modern    lOnj^lish  work  but  not  to  the  sacrifice  of  a  strai^lit- 
forward  de\eIopnient  of  plan  in  simple  materials 

Sqitircs  iif    W'vukoop,   architects 

the  most  positive  convictions  that  the  style  of  their  choice  is  without 
question  the  only  right,  the  only  logical  style  for  our  times.  It  is 
Mr.  Ralph  Adams  Cram's  firm  conviction  that  the  abandonment  of 
the  Gothic  style  brought  about  the  ruin  of  all  that  was  noblest 
in  the  art  of  architecture.  It  is  his  almost  religious  zeal  for  a  revivifi- 
cation of  that  style  that  gives  to  his  designs  their  absorbing  interest. 
It  is  because  Thomas  Hastings  believes  we  will  achieve  no  worthy 
end  unless  we  succeed  in  making  our  work  an  evolution  from  the 
French  styles  of  the  eighteenth  century,  and  it  is  because  of  his  knowl- 
edge of  and  devotion  to  those  styles  that  his  work  reaches  so  high  a 
plane  of  urbanity  and  courtliness.  It  was  because  Mr.  Charles 
McKim  had  an  ineradicable  conviction  that  it  is  from  Italy,  whether 
of  the  classical  times  or  of  the  Renaissance,  that  we  should  draw  our 
inspiration,  that  he  could  clothe  the  needs  of  our  own  time  in  a  garb  that 


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for  dignity  of  manner  and  for  perfection  of  proportion  and  of  detail 
often  equals  the  best  of  the  examples  for  which  he  showed  such  com- 
plete devotion. 

In  the  face  of  obsessions  such  as  these,  how  futile  it  is  for  the 
owner  to  talk  of  choosing  his  own  style.  It  is  only  when  he  selects 
an  architect  devoid  of  definite  convictions  that  he  will  be  confronted 
with  his  imagined  troubles.  Yet  in  this  connection  another  thing  needs 
saying,  and  that  is  that  the  power  these  men  have  of  producing  work 
of  great  distinction  comes,  not  alone  from  their  definite  convictions 
on  the  subject  of  style,  but  also,  and  this  is  far  more  important,  from 
the  fact  that  each  is  an  artist  of  such  rare  ability  that  even  if  he  were 
set  to  work  in  an  alien  style  he  would  design  buildings  of  far  greater 
interest  than  the  work  of  most  other  men. 


An  interesting  combination  of  stucco  with  half-timber  work  in  the  gable  ends  to 
avoid  monotony.  The  Germantown  hood,  extending  over  the  first-story  win- 
dows, is  a  purely  American  feature 

Duhring,   Okie  &  Ziegler,  architects 

But  after  all  the  questioner  insists  upon  a  direct  answer.  If  he 
must  have  it,  even  though  it  be  an  ideal  difficult  of  realization  for  men 
of  this  generation,  it  is  precisely  the  thought  I  put  forth  a  while  ago, 
by  saying  that  if  the  plan  be  a  simple  and  direct  expression  of  the 
needs  and  life  of  the  people  who  are  to  live  in  the  house,  and  if  the 


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elevations  are  a  logical  expression  of  that  plan,  and  if  the  whole  be 
made  beautiful  and  vocal  of  its  time  and  place,  then  the  building  will 
have  style  in  the  best  sense  and  will  need  none  of  that  exotic  or 
archaeological  style  that  is  the  bane  of  so  much  of  our  work  to-day. 

Frank  Miles  Day 


A  modern  home  at  Cynwyd,  Pa.,  showing;  a  return  to  the  stately  hiph-columned 
Colonial  porch  that  was  common  in  the  early  Southern  work 

Mcllvain  <2f  Roberts,  architects 


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Mr.  Flag-g's  cottage  is  an  excellent  example  of  how  the  very  smallest  country  or  suburban 
home  that  is  really  livable  can  be  made  attractive.  The  use  of  the  heavy  brick  piers  at  the 
corners,  with  an  unusual  pattern  of  brickwork  filling  below  the  windows,  and  stucco  walls 
above,  makes  the  house  particularly  well  worth  studying 


•COTTAai    KIB-Mt  JTAMLE.Y  G    FLAOCJt' 


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The  plan  is  the  common  central-hall  type, 
but  it  is  worth  noting  how  closet  space  has 
been  gained  by  having  only  the  passage- 
way thiough  the  pantry  and  dining-room 
from  kitchen  to  the  front  door 


Upstairs  there  are  two  distinct  parts  of  the 
house  ;  the  rear  wing  with  its  two  bed- 
rooms and  bath  for  the  housekeeper,  and 
the  two  main  bedrooms  and  bath  between 
them  in  front  for  the  owner  and  guests 


T^HE  COTTAGE  OF  MR.  STANLEY  G.  FLAGG,  JR.,  STOWE,  PA. 

Aymar  Embury,  II.,  architect 


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Patterned  after  the   sturdy   American  farnilioiise,  of  wliitc-paintcd  shinples,  with  hroad  stone 
chimneys  in  the  p^ahle  ends  and  a  lower  winjj  for  the  service    department,    this  type   has 
attained  a  remarkatdy  j^reat  popularity  throughout  New  York  and   Philadelphia  suburbs 
{See  also  the  Uluxlration  on  paye  (>) 


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:*liX:C.ND  FLOOn. 


The  two-chimney  arrangement  that  contributes  much  to  the  exterior  appearance  of  the  house 
works  out  i)arti(ularly  well  in  plan.  There  are  flues  for  furnace  and  humdry  stove  from  the 
cellar,  in  addition  to  the  range  and  living-room  Hre|)lace  anil  two  bedroom  fireplaces  above — 
three   flues  to  each  chimney 

A   HOUSK  A'l'  VVOODMKRK,   L.   1.  C/iar/ts  Ihulon  Kan,  anhiUrt 


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Where  there  is  an  abundance  of  local  stone  it  is  usually  an  economical  plan  to  utilize 
it  for  the  foundations  and  chimneys,  securing  an  appearance  of  stability  that  cannot  be 
had  in  a  structure  built  of  wood 


A-5-KMTOrt 


The  screened  porch  at  the  rear  is  used  for  the  kitchen  work. 
The  one  in  the  front,  by  reason  of  its  nearness  to  the 
kitchen,  is  frequently  used  as  an  outdoor  dining-room 

BUNGALOW  OF  LEE  A.  McCONNELL,  ALTADENA,  CAL. 

y^.  B.  Benton,  architect 


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An  attractive  feature  of  the  first  floor 
plan  is  the  long  vista  across  the  front 
of  the  house  through  the  music-room, 
hall  and  living-room.  There  is  also 
a  vista  at  right  angles  to  this  from  the 
living-room  back  through  the  dining- 


THE  HOME  OF 'MR.  H.  H. 
PITTINGER 

NETHERWOOD,  N.  J. 


Stained  cypress  is  used  for  the  woodwork  in  entrance  hall  and  living-room.     The  open- 
ing up  of  the  partition  between  these  two  gives  an  added  feeling  of  spaciousness 


Hollingsworth  &  Bragdon 
architects 


The  owner's  suite,  it  will  be  noticed 
on  the  second  floor  plan,  is  particu- 
larly well  arranged,  with  bath,  dress- 
ing-room, nursery  and  sleeping-porch, 
all  adjoining  one  another.  The  bath 
is  also  reached  from  the  stair  landing 


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Platt   ^  fyrtsT  fLoap. 


A  dining-porch  secluded  from  the   street  is  a         A  sleeping-porch  is  reached  from  the  owner's 
feature  of  the  first  story  and  boys'  bedrooms_i 


The  dining-porch  is  made  bright  with  an  ingenious  type  of  window-box  which  is  supported  in 
sections  on  legs  supplied  with  castors.  In  this  way  a  great  variety  of  arrangement  may  be 
secured  and  the  boxes  may  be  turned  to  bring  the  other  side  to  the  light  when  needed 

THE  HOME  OF  MR.  R.  M.  ROLOSON,  EVANSTON,  ILL. 

Tallmadffe  &  Watson,  architects 


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The  Flemish   lioiul    hrirkwork,  dark-staiiicd   sliiii^jlcs,  the  plastfr-aiul-timher   jjable    ends  and 
the  white  trim  of  the  windows,  fjive  a  broad  variety  of  materials  that   needs  careful   handling 
to  be  effective 


THE  HOME   OK  MR.  JOSEPH 

W.  NORTHROP,  ARCHITECT' 

BRIDGEPOR'l',  CONN. 


An  in^jenioiis  arranjjfement  of  central  stair- 
case, rear  stairs  ami  passa^jeway,  by  which 
tlu-  maiil  can  reach  the  front  iloor  without 
pa.s>iiit;  tlirou^,di  any  room,  is  the  most 
instructive  feature  of  the  first-stor\   plan 


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An  attractive  vaiiety  of  mass  is  gained  for  the  nearly  square   house  by  the  stepped-back  gables 
in  the  roof  and  the   echo  of  these  marking  the  front  door 


THE  HOME  OF    MR.  JOSEPH 

W.  NORTHROP,  ARCHITECT 

BRIDGEPORT,  CONN. 


The  rear  stairs  join  the  main  flight  upon  a        V^ 
landing  somewhat  below  the  second  floor.  ^ 

A  central  stairway  and  hall,  if  it  can  be 
satisfactorily  lighted,  usually  provides  the 
most  economical  arrangement  of  space  for 
the  bedrooms 


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The  plan,    being    nearly    square,    is  a  most  The  long  slope  of  the  roof  to  the  left,  shel- 

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wasted  in  the  hall  built-in  seats  in  two  bedrooms 


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shingles  below,  narrower  courses  of  ligliter  shingles  across  the  second  story  and  dark, 
vertically-battened  boards  in  the  gable  ends 


HOME  OF  F.  M.  SUMMERVILLE,  Architect,  RIDGEWOOD,  N.  J. 


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In  the  living-room  the  chimney-breast  and   the    woodwork  on  the  ceiling  and 
side  walls,  while  simple,  help  to  furnish  the  room 


Stairu-il  cyiircss  li:is  ht-en  iiscii  (lltctivfly  for  the  wood  trim  and  the  wainsi'otinp, 
with  its  upper  panels  matching  the  tinteil  plaster 

rHK  HOMK  OF  MR.   V.    M.  SL'MMKkXlLLK 
ARCHrnX'T,  RIDCJKWOOD,  N.  J. 


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31 


The  second  floor  is   made  larger  than  the   first  by  carrying  the  roof  and  long 
dormer  out  over  the  side  porch 


The  long  porch  as  seen  from  the  garden.     The  lattice  screen  covers  the  street 
end,  securing  greater  privacy 

THE  HOME  OF  MR.  W.  A.  BOLAND,  YONKERS,  N.  Y. 

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The  ri^ht-hand  side  ,of  the  jphin, 
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that  the  two  bedrooms  on  the 
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THE  HOME   OF  MR.  W.  A.  BOLAND,  YONKERS,  N.  Y. 

Christopher  Myers,  architect 


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The  rather  unusual  combination  of  dark  tan  stucco  and  dark,  brown  woodwork 
has  been  used.  To  lend  additional  interest  to  the  texture  of  the  stucco  the 
surface  has  been   finished  with  an   irregular,  swirling   motion  of  the  float 


The  approucli  and   main   entrance  of  the  house  is  from  tiie  driveway  at  the  rear 
From  this  central  doorway  one  enters  the   study  back  of  the  hall 

THE  HOME  OF  MR.  CHARLES  PARK,  JR  ,    ENCJEE- 
VVOOI),  N.  J. 

.ly/nar  Embury,  II.,   architeci 


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The  first-floor  plan  shows  the  now  fairly  common  type  of  house  where  a  central  hallway  divides 
the  large  living-room  from  the  dining-room  and  service  portion.  Usually  , however,  on  a  lot 
restricted  in  width  the  kitchen  is  at  the  back 


HO  VOL  •  roK,  -Aa-C^A-S  ■  F  •  PAE-K:  ' '  tJTC.Ll.VOOP  •K:J--AYM.Ai^-EMi>VILY  •  W  '  AR£.Hir'llAaMiW.lf-Y-C- 


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Two  unusually  generous  bedrooms  are  found  on  the  second  floor,  with  two  smaller  ones,  two 
baths,  a  dressing-room  and  a  fairly  large  linen-room.  On  the  third  floor  there  are  two 
additional  rooms  lighted  by  the  gable-end  windows 


THE  HOME  OF  MR.  CHARLES  PARK,  JR.,  ENGLEWOOD,  N.  J. 

Aymar  Embury,  11. ,  architect 


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A  feature   well   worthy  of  emulation   is   the  awning-like   projection   of  latticework,  over    the 
porch  railing,  covered  with  vines 


(*r<    . ■rv»^irVTt»'-3,'^; ''"' . 


Beneath  the  veranl: 


I  Ik       itc    gives    opportunity  for  a  large  playroom  or  work- 
room for  the  children 


THE  HOME  OF  THE  LAMBS,  CRESSKILL,  N.  J. 


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nected with  it  at  the  platform  level 


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It  will  be  noticed  that  there  are  two  main  m trances,  each  of  which  leads  into 
the  hall  One  of  these,  the  street  entrance,  is  shown  on  the  preceding 
page.  The  other,  as  will  be  seen  here,  leads  down  to  the  rear  of  the 
property 


All  of  the  irregularity  of  the  jilan 
on  the  first  Hoor  is  taken  up  in 
hall  and  j)antry 


On  the  second  floor  the  angularity 
is  confined  to  the  hall  and  one 
<if  the  l)athrooMis 


THE    HOME    OF    MR.    DEXTl-R    \L    WADSWORTH 
QUINCY,    MASvS.  /.   Sin>nur  /-o-a-h-r,  architrd 


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Even  with  its  radical   departure  tr(.)m    coiu'cntional    right-angledness,    the 
hall  is  by  no  means  unattractive 


Beyond  the  dining-room  at   tlie   riglit  lies   the  screened   piazza,    reached 
by  a  doorway  that  has  replaced  the  window   shown  in  the  plan 

HOME  OF  MR.  DEXTER  E.  WADSWORTH,  QUINCY,  MASS. 
/.  Sumner  Foivler,  architect 


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The  plan  is  nearly  square — the  most 
economical  type  tobuilH.  In  addi- 
tion there  is  but  the  single  chimney, 
servings  the  livingf-room  fireplace, 
kitchen  rang:e  and  furnace.  A 
brick-paved  terrace  extends  across 
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leads  to  the  covered  porch  across 
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THE  HOME  OF  MR.   EDWARD  F.   BEALE 
STRAFFORD,  PENNSYLVANIA 

Mellor  &  Meigs,   arcJiiteds 


There  are  four  bedrooms  and  bath 
on  the  second  floor,  each  with  at 
least  one  closet.  The  waste  space 
in  the  upper  hall  has  been  brought 
to  the  irreducible  minimum.  As 
will  be  seen  from  the  plan,  it  could 
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Tlie  recessed   hre|>lace,  made  necessar\   liy   the  one  cliimney,   rathei  adds  to  the 
living-room's  attractiveness 

HOME  Ol    MR.  KDWARI)  F.   BKALK,  S  TRAI- 1  ( )RI),  I'A. 
Mel  lor  O^"  Mrigs,   nrc/iificts 


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In  the   library  the  fireplace  treatment  is  particularly  effective  in  its  simple  gray  moldings,  the 
carved  wood  cartouche  in  the  centre  and  the  ivory-plastered  wall 


In  the  dining-room  the  wall  covering  is  a  robin' s-egg  blue    in  color,  contrasting  pleasantly 
with  ivory-white  woodwork  and  the  furniture  of  dull  mahogany 

THE  HOME  OF  DR.  W.  W.  GILCHRIST,  ST.  MARTIN'S,  PA. 

Edmund  B.  Gilchrist,   architect 


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From  the  library  French  casements  open  out  upon  the  hri.  L  i.:i\ nl  iiorch,  which 
by  its  advantageous  western   exposure  catches  every  summer  breeze 


A  stone  wall  coped  with  brick  bounds  the   northern   and  eastern  edges   of  the 
property,  inside  of  which  the  land  is  terraced  down  to  the  plateau 

THE  HOME  OE  DR.  W.  W.  GILCHRIST,  ST.  MARTIN'S,  PA. 

Edmund   B.  Gilchrist,  architect 


56 


luexpenshe  Homes  of  Individuality 


Mr.  Bull's  liouse  is  a  free  adaptation  of  Dutch  Colonial  niotiscs.    Tin- narrow  trellis  arouiul 
the  face  of  the  dormer  windows  supports  vines  growing  in  the  \vin{k)W-l)oxes 


A  line,  l»ii)a<l  vlsia  is  si-ciired  across  Ine  whole  froni  of  the  house  Its   kcepln;;    the 
openings  into  the  hall  wide 

IIIK  HOMK  OK  MR.  JKROMK  C.  HULI.,   TLICKAIIOK,  N.  ^ 

Avinar  Hiiihiirv,  II.,  iircbitect 


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57 


A  curtain  wall   of  brick  and  frame,  between  the  hea\  \    Ntnnc  pitrs,  gives  the 
house  a  feature  that  is  distinctly  unique 


The  liying-room  finish  is  extremely  simple,  of  dark-stained  cypress  in  the  mantel, 
ceilingf  beams  and  bookcases 

THE  HOME  OF  MR.  JEROME  C.  BULL,  TUCKAHOE,  N.Y. 

Aymar  Embury,  II..  architect 


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A  wiile  porch  adjoins  the  lixin^j   room,  its    roof   carryinjj  across    the   cud  liic  line   ot   the 

"  CJermantown    hood  " 

1  hi;  uomi:  oi-  mr.  jkromk  c.  hull,  rucKAHOL,  n.  ^ . 

Avmur  Emburv,  11. ,  atcbitcct 


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The   deep    overliantr   of    the    second    story  not    only    lielps   to    ^ive    the    hmisr     its    .ll^lllu 
rharacter  but  makes  |)ossilile  bedrooms  of  umisiially   ^'eneroiis  si/.e 

THK  HOMK    OK  MRS.  N.   J.    HKIS'ILK,  S\\  ARTI  IMORl.,    1V\. 
IV.   I:.  JiU/iSon.  iiidiiti'it 


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The  same  flavor  of  restraint    is  seen  throughout  the   interior,  where   the  walls 
are  of  rougfh  plaster,  tinted 


THE  HOME  OF 

MRS.  N.  J.   BEISTLE, 

SWARTHMORE, 

PA. 


IV.  E.  Jackson,  architect 


On  the  first  floor  the  reception  room,  hall 
and  library  give  a  long-  and  attractive  vista 
across  the  whole  front  of  the  house.  As 
the  photograph  above  shows,  the  partitions 
between  the  hall  and  the  other  rooms  have 
been  opened  up  more  fully  than  the  usual 
large  doorways  permit 


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and  garden 


5LCOND   FLOOR.  PLAN 


63 


The  second-story  hall  has  been  kept  down 
to  the  minimum  of  area  by  skillful  planning 
and  cut  corners 


The   ((iiiimnn    fauk  of  nvi-rdnlng  the   intricacy  of  the  half-timber   paneling-  has 
been  carefully  avoided 

HOME  OF  MR.  RICHARD  I.  NEITHERCUT,  BRIDGEPORT,  CONN. 

Joseph   IK  Northrop,  architect 


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IJlNCAI.oWS 


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here  dearly  and  entertainingly  set  forth. 

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